You've GOT to be fucking kidding me. (or, "Bush and Kerry are alike in some ways, but different in others...")

Every mediocre compare/contrast paper I've ever read has that sort of sentence in it; those papers invariably end up in the B-C+ range.

So to see that type of prose appear in an MSNBC.com article makes me wonder how that writer has a fucking job.

Oh, and if the writer illustrated how Kerry would have started military action based upon spreading false information to the American public and the international community I might have bought his argument.